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Andrea de Michaelis
Horizons Magazine
Easter ~ Ostara
Folk stories of the Easter Rabbit began in pre-Christian fertility lore. Some early pagans celebrated the return of Spring with a festival in tribute to their Goddess of fertility and springtime, Eastre or Ostara . The Goddess Eastre , was sometimes represented with a woman's body, rabbit's head.
One popular legend says Eastre found a bird, wounded, on the ground late in winter. To save its life, she transformed it into a hare. But "the transformation was not a complete one. The bird took the appearance of a hare but retained the ability to lay eggs... the hare would decorate these eggs and leave them as gifts to Eastre." Enter the Easter Bunny . The egg is a symbol of fertility and rebirth.
The festival of Eastre
occurs at the same time as Christian observance of
the Resurrection of Christ
, and in the Jewish faith,
Passover
May your Spirit be renewed by the promise
that every day is a new beginning
